This post on behalf of Emortgage Calculator One of the more important parts of buying a house, is not over spending on the house that you plan on buying.  Despite all the headlines during the recent real estate boom and crash, people are still trying to buy much more house than they can reasonably afford.  [...]

I was reading a story somewhere where a person was being interviewed about their debt.  In the interview, the person was speaking about how they had this credit card debt and how they just couldn’t get out from under it because of all the interest, fees, and other ways that the credit card company throws [...]

Quick!  What’s the first thing that pops into your head when I say “escrow account”?  It’s that account that’s associated with your mortgage, isn’t it.  That’s the first thing that come to me when I hear the word.  But, that isn’t all that an escrow account is. At it’s very basic beginnings, an escrow account [...]